Think of it this way, OC, you’re one in a million. Well, one in 1.52 million, to be precise

And just to piss you off, my new blog, http://www.feministcritics.org/blog which still consists mainly of threads originally posted here, has 86 posts, and 1987 comments, for a comment to post ratio of 23.

I’ll bet Amp could show us a thing or two.

There was a spam explosion which started around Christmas, but which has subsided noticably in the past few days.

More seriously, a high comment to post ratio eventually becomes a bad thing. There are some blogs out there which get 300+ comments on nearly every post, but when you read the discussions they’re complete crap – “me first!” and “me too!” and “fuck you!” and variants repeated three hundred times over.

More seriously, a high comment to post ratio eventually becomes a bad thing. There are some blogs out there which get 300+ comments on nearly every post, but when you read the discussions they’re complete crap – “me first!” and “me too!” and “fuck you!” and variants repeated three hundred times over.

In that case, comment length might proxy for their value. It only takes two words to say “fuck you”, but it might require many paragraphs to make a reasoned rebuttal.

I presume you can access your database directly, using phpMyAdmin, or something similar? So how big is your wp_comments table? Mine is 2.6MB (less 0 overhead) divided by 2003 comments equals 1.3M per thousand comments.

I’d also be interested in how much bandwidth you use. My average over the past 15 days has been 24MB/day (The site’s been up a month now, but the first couple of weeks aren’t really representative.) But it varies wildly from day to day, and also from week to week. For example, there hasn’t been a day during the past week when it’s been below 20MB, despite a major outage. The week before, it never went above 20MB.